The Fasting Highway

Tonya Kortekaas lives in Pontiac, Michigan with her husband Michael of 10 years. She is mom to 3 adult sons and “bonus” mom to Michael’s 3 adult children as well. Tonya spent most of her adult life as a stay-at-home mom of 3 growing boys and self employed as a portrait photographer.  She felt that her most important mission in life was to raise her children and give them all the care and love they...

By Anne Henley I live in South Carolina on Lake Murray outside Columbia (the capital). I am married, and we just celebrated 30 years in October. I have two grown children, one is in his first year of graduate school in Michigan and the other just got married (Oct 29, 2022). Back story. I became complacent and tired. I have always been an active person, and actually have a degree in health fitness...

Tracey Mack lives in Taylor, Michigan a small city outside of Detroit. Tracey currently works for the U.S. Government, and she also served in the U. S. Army. Tracey has been yo-yo- dieting since the age of 25 when she started gaining weight after giving birth to her second child. Tracey has tried every diet known to man including working out in the gym for hours at a time. She reached her highest...

Leslie Taylor is a stay-at-home mom and grandma and has worked as a medical website content developer. She enjoys taking complicated medical information and presenting it in a creative and easy-to-understand manner for the general public. She is currently writing a book on fasting called Fast Well Feast Well and will be releasing the content of the book in a free weekly newsletter called FastWell....

Belle is 57 and lives just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. She has been married to her husband for 25 years and has a 22-year-old son, a 20-year-old daughter and a Pitbull named Louie. She works remotely full time, for a home care agency in New York City where she is a Client Account Manager. She has a part time job on the weekends at a women’s clothing boutique that sh...

I am a 42-year-old mom of three amazing kids ages 15, 13, and 10. I am a wife of 19 years to my best friend Steven. We are both teachers who have been in the classroom for almost 20 years. We enjoy life in a tiny house on 3 acres—a little slice of “country” in crowded Northern California. We grow our own fruits and veggies and currently have about a dozen chickens. I was first introduced to IF in...

Heather is a 43-year-old mom of 2 and has been married to her husband, Branden, for 10 years.  She is a Kindergarten teacher from Southwestern Ontario, Canada. At the end of October 2021, a friend sent her a video of Graeme in a podcast interview.  She listened to it and had a “lightbulb” moment and immediately ordered Graeme Curries book, “The Fasting Highway”.  After reading Graeme’s story in le...

I’m 49-year-old mother, wife, sister, auntie and great aunt living in Belfast NI. I changed my lifestyle in Jan 2022 to incorporate intermittent Fasting due to an increase of metabolic health issues. I was trying to juggle my work life balance of being a mother, CEO and living with peri menopause. IF has been life changing ❤️ We take a look over the past year as Grainne takes us through her incred...

I’m 51. Always have struggled with my weight. Grew up in Winnipeg Canada. Suppose the weight issue has been related to anxiety and been addicted to eating to sooth. Weight didn’t get to out of control until I started trucking in 96. Married in 99 not a healthy relationship. We had Mitch in 2008 when he was born, I had gotten down briefly to 220ish. (Atkins). Weight went out of control at that poin...

Rachel Awad lives in Cairo Egypt and is an expat from the US. In today's episode we recap Rachels journey and what has transpired over the last two years since she was last on the podcast in episode 6. We delve into ADF and OMAD and the differences that Rachel has found from both protocols. Rachel is experienced with intermittent fasting and has served as a moderator in popular online fasting...

Netta was desperate to overcome her debilitating health issues. She struggled with chronic constipation, headaches, achy joints, uncomfortable extra pounds, energy slumps, anxiety, mood swings, and more. By the age of 45, she’d tried everything… except for one solution! Cut sugar. But she resisted it – until she realized that “nothing changes if nothing changes”. It started as a temporary 2-week e...

We have a different host this week as Graeme Currie is the one being interviewed by his wife Lou Collins in this special 150th episode of the Fasting Highway.  They talk about what's coming up in the future for Graeme and he mentions his future plans for the fasting highway and his new career in helping people to find auto pilot wellness. Graeme also answers some listener questions that have b...

By Ava Brodie I’m married to Terry he is so lovely and supportive, we met late in life, we have a golden doodle dog he is a cutie, and we live in the United Kingdom. I was a very skinny child eating whatever I like especially sugary stuff and this addiction continued into my adult life. When I reached my 30s my weight started to become an issue, I remember walking into my first weight watchers&#39...

Ruth is 55 years old, and she is from Melbourne Australia, she is the mother of two wonderful sons. (Fifteen and twenty y.o). Ruth works as a psychotherapist and Soul Companion primarily with people encountering death, dying, grief and loss. When she started her IF journey, she felt like it was the last throw of the dice in a lifelong struggle to be in a healthy, happy body. She feels she is about...

Cara Straughn lives in southwestern Missouri, USA. She is a 39-year-old mom of 3 and has been married to her loving husband, Mike, for 17 years. Cara has struggled with her weight ever since junior high. She learned at the young age of 17 that she had developed PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) and struggled with the emotional and physical issues that come along with that over the next 2 decades...

Kevin and Rindi Trainer have been married for almost 37 years and live in the great state of Texas in the United States. They have raised two children who are now adults, and they became grandparents in August of 2022 to a sweet baby boy. To back up a bit, in March of 2020. Rindi went for her yearly physical and was not completely surprised to find out she was pre-diabetic. Her weight was up, bloo...

Farnoosh is published author with 4 books, runs her own company with her husband for the last 11 years, and does a ton of work around Mindset & Leadership with Universities (especially STEM programs) and Companies. Also passionate about yoga + fasting + getting stronger & leaner & healthier as we get older & wiser :) In this episode we talk about mindset which Farnoosh is an expert...

I am the third son of three boys born in 1961 (the three youngest in diapers at the same time). We were a typical family and as we grew my mother really became a great cook. Her specialties were homemade breads, cookies, cakes, pies, and our favorite Swedish Tea Rings.  Most of the time what she produced would only last a few hours unless she hid them high in the pantry.  There was always plenty t...

Anita Downes is from Perth Australia and lives with her wife and children who are super supportive of her IF lifestyle. Anita has had a roller coaster ride with her weight and has lost and regained over the years. Anita at one point considered weight loss surgery. It was her sister Monica that pleaded with her to give intermittent Fasting a try before having surgery. It turned out the best decisio...

Rachel is from Birmingham, Alabama USA. She’s been married to her amazing husband, Stephen for 22 years, and together they have 7 Wonderful children, 4 girls and 3 boys, ranging in age from 1 year to 19 years old. Rachel is a full-time homeschooling momma, who loves her family more than anything. She feels that she was born to be a momma, and break many of the old patterns of motherhood that have...

"Jacqui Lewis lives in San Francisco, CA, in the USA, right near the famous bridge. She is 65 years old and feels as if she has finally found the best tool in the world to erase a lifelong poor body image through the magic of Intermittent Fasting. Youngest In family of 5...growing up w/ her two slim blond sisters, Jacqui felt awkward & insecure of her muscular, dense body type and black h...

Tracey Dixon-Neale is a 43-year-old Mum of 4 living in the small farming community of Onewhero in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. As an 11-year-old girl Tracey was sexually assaulted by a family friend which was prolonged by a yearlong court case. In the following years her stepmother left her and her father, she dropped out of high school and eventually moved in with her mo...

John Jerry Saunders Jnr is an inspiring man to listen to and is from Columbus Ohio in the United States. He has been living an intermittent fasting lifestyle for over 8 years seriously after dabbling for two years. JJ is a long term intermittent faster who has lived an incredible lifestyle change over that time. He lost a staggering 45.5kgs ( 100 pounds) over the first two years of his journey and...

In this episode we re-connect with Fifi di Foofi (Maryann Liess) who was last heard on episode 36. The Fasting Highway facebook page moderator discusses how she has handled maintenance and her ADF routine since our last discussion in December of 2020. The different ADF methods, the negatives and the positives, NSVs and health benefits are also touched on in this episode. If you’re interested in an...

I’m Candice, 41 year wife, Mom and working part time outside of the home. We are an Air Force family nearing military retirement with 3 kids. Our eldest son is 23 currently serving in the Florida National Guard, a 16 year old son and our youngest daughter is 9.I started my IF journey the summer of 2018 when we were stationed in Illinois. I originally started the process of getting weight loss surg...